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Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits

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485 points dredmorbius | 4 comments | 22 Jun 23 16:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.462s | source
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nashashmi ◴[22 Jun 23 17:19 UTC] No.36435534[source]▶
This is lame. The poster made a good point. If it’s not your platform, then you don’t own it.

so if I started a new sub Reddit that was part of a particular company initiative and connected people with it, I would not own that sub Reddit because it is not my platform.

this is a problem.

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1. bdcravens ◴[22 Jun 23 17:55 UTC] No.36436105[source]▶
You are correct. Any content created on someone else's site isn't yours - Youtube, Facebook, HN, etc. Even Gmail. We are making a tradeoff for reach, access, performance, etc.
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2. theossuary ◴[22 Jun 23 18:05 UTC] No.36436249[source]▶
This just isn't true. The content is legally yours, Reddit only has a license to it so they can display it on their site. Just like a record label though, Reddit has economies of scale and can do more with your content than you can, creating a power imbalance.
3. OnlyLys ◴[22 Jun 23 18:53 UTC] No.36436966[source]▶
Is that true? I don't know about the other services, but YouTube has this to say in their terms of service:

> You retain ownership rights in your Content.

https://www.youtube.com/t/terms

4. fknorangesite ◴[22 Jun 23 20:36 UTC] No.36438579[source]▶
This is completely, utterly incorrect. From Reddit's own terms:

> You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content, but you grant Reddit the following license to use that Content: ...

https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement/